Impressionism
emerged in the mid-19th century, a time when the modernization of western
society began to cause transmutation in spiritual culture after decades of full
speed development. Impressionism is a kind of art trend and school which
originated in France in the late 19th century. Impressionism artists are
different from the classical art in terms of composition, modeling, color,
brushwork and subjective spirit. They redraw and practice.

Impressionistic
painting, which originated in the 1860s, is an impressionistic painting
phenomenon centered on France, popular in Europe and with worldwide influence.
The term "impressionist" was originally used to describe the work of
a group of artists with similar artistic tendencies who held exhibitions
together. It is also ironic. Although the word comes from the painting
impression of sunrise by the painter monet, it has become a remarkable art
movement in a short period of time. The first impressionist painting exhibition
in Paris in 1874 was regarded as a sign of the birth of the impressionist
painting community. Is the representative figure of impressionism in manet,
degas, pissarro, renoir, monet, west weasley and post-impressionist painter
Vincent van gogh, gauguin, Cezanne, and seurat and others, they learned the
koro, barbizon school, and Mr Cole realism experience, under the inspiration of
modern science in the 19th century, depicting the object in the sunlight
directly, through painter direct observations of the feelings, to express the
subtle color changes.

Impressionists
almost always emphasize the occasional glance, striving to view objects from a
new Angle, such as from the balcony of a party box, from a corner to a great
hall, and from the top to a group of dancers, all of which were not found in
classical painting before. Their composition also breaks through the old
chapter, like to do random clipping, compared with the traditional stage - like
composition, more vivid and natural

As
impressionist painters re-sketched and practiced, most of them painted the
external light and the rapid changes of nature outdoors, often in a very short
time, bold and decisive. Both the improvisation and the memory of their
paintings have the characteristics of being spontaneous, undemanding and
casual, with a kind of unfinished integrity. Therefore, there are some features
in the modeling features:

Classical
paintings emphasize the massiness and roundness of the form, while
impressionism emphasizes the flatness of the form. This point is very prominent
in manet's works. He has simplified the excessive level between black and
white, and simplified the light and shadow inside each body, which is different
from the hazy multi-layer light and shadow effect in classical painting.

Classical
paintings emphasize sharp lines, and impressionism is very implicit in dealing
with edge lines, even the connection between forms and forms.

In
classic painting sketch modelling occupies absolute dominant position, and
impressionism pays more attention to color, emphasize the expression function
that gives play to color independence.

Impressionism
pays attention to the combination of light, color, form, meaning and beauty of
painting, reflecting the main features of the combination of impressionism art
and optics. In impressionist paintings, light and color are the basic painting
language and art elements. Light and color are the starting point of art of
form, meaning and beauty.

Is
to use the primary color juxtaposition, overlapping and complementary color
techniques, forming a new impressionistic painting language. The struggle
between color and line before impressionism, that is, between romanticism and
classicism, has shown that color is challenging classicism.

The
impressionists use "write". They found a new painting language. The
arrangement of impressionist painters use small brush strokes, from time to
time is set, knife, rubbing and sometimes overlap, sometimes, and sometimes
coated with transverse longitudinal wipe, sometimes point to face a variety of
methods, such as some colors are no longer on the palette, but directly into
the picture it feels and combination, and red and green, yellow, blue and
purple and orange complementary, make the painting form of sex reached an
unprecedented height.

Before
the emergence of impressionist paintings, the art scene in Paris and even in
Europe was dominated by the so-called neoclassicism and academism represented
by angel. Impressionism is the spiritual opposite to the classical traditional
painting, emphasizing innovation. Their innovation mainly lies in the painting
as well as for the subject matter of attitude, in fact, impressionist painter
is not opposed to nature, they leave the studio, the small size of the frame and
portable canvas and other materials, is to go to study in the fleeting nature
color change rule, to looking for ways to vent their emotions, to discover and
create their own thoughts.

As
the Renaissance movement to free society from the middle ages in Europe, the
emergence of "impressionism" is marked the artist from indoor to
outdoor, from a similar picture of soy sauce color tone to the colorful
pictures, drawing invisible strokes from the classical to the present, free of
the brush from the focus on religious subjects to rural subject matter and the
change of the ordinary life, from the objective reappearance to the subjective
mental performance, etc. In the early 20th century, impressionism became a
popular art genre. It achieved the most brilliant artistic achievements in
France, and its influence spread throughout Europe and the world.